HMS Spartan may refer to one of these vessels of the British Royal Navy named in recognition of the military abilities of the Spartans of ancient Greece. was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1806 and broken up in 1822 HMS Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate; ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831 was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862 was an wooden screw sloop launched in 1868 and sold in 1882 was a second class cruiser launched in 1891, sent to harbour service in 1907, renamed Defiance in 1921, and sold in 1931 was a launched in 1942 and sunk in 1944 by a Hs 293 guided bomb is a nuclear-powered launched in 1978
Battle Honours Bay of Naples, 1810 Burma, 1853 China, 1856–57 Atlantic, 1943 Mediterranean, 1944 Anzio, 1944 Falklands, 1982
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